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Rod's Part 3 of 3
Saturday morning found Mike and Julie on the train from Charing Cross to Kent at 10am. “There must be a logical explanation,” said Julie. “I mean, it...
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Rod's - Part 2
They sat on rickety folding chairs in the back yard. The afternoon air was warm. Another train thrummed in the distance, then was gone. The bees and...
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Rod's Part 1
July 1987 Mike had been all agog when Henry described the White Horseman. On the Saturday of their weekend break in Faversham, he’d insisted on...
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The Coffin-2 of 2
Stephen ought to have retired a decade ago. It wasn't as if he needed the money; Interworld had done very well for itself in Malta’s boom years,...
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The Coffin-1
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THE COFFIN Mysteries of the Art World had been a huge success. People had flocked from all over Europe – the world, even – to Valletta, the pocket-...
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That image is fine - couldn't
Posted on Tue, 30 Sep 2025
That image is fine - couldn't have done better myself. Glad to see you got one of the North Anglesey Coast on a relatively calm day - we don't want to be accused of exaggerating, do we?
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Autumn - my favourite season?
Posted on Thu, 06 Nov 2025
'And soon to go' - You capture the transitoriness of the seasons and life in general so well.
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Glad to see someone else names their cars
Posted on Sun, 19 Oct 2025
Glad to see someone else names their cars - Fionnuala the Fiat, meet Gertie the VW and Hilda the BMW.
I spent a night and a day in Strabane, just over the border in the late 1980s. It was...interesting.
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Running amok
Posted on Tue, 14 Oct 2025
I too have been accused of Wonton behaviour in the food aisle...
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In the best traditions of Victorian hymnists
Posted on Sun, 12 Oct 2025
Written in the best traditions of Victorian hymnists (if that's the right word). Perhaps the style is due for a revival...
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Never trust a man in a padded gilet
Posted on Wed, 01 Oct 2025
Never trust a man who wears a padded gilet.
I too love fish - provided it doesn't taste of fish...
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Happy ending
Posted on Thu, 02 Oct 2025
All's well that ends well, indeed. Maybe I should make my next story have a happy ending.
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A relationship formed in
Posted on Sun, 14 Sep 2025
A relationship formed in adversity. I'm told that Sam got a transfer to the Met so she could be with Chris and they got married two years later, had two kids and are living in happy retirement in Worthing. Their grand-daughter joined the Met too...
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